Bypassing Vonnegut, he clicks over to YouTube, meaning that tomorrow he will enter his senior year of high school hoping to see an improvement in his grades, but without having completed his only summer homework.
On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.”
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Story Time | Prediction | Second Grade - 1 views
Books and Bytes - 0 views
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Blog from last year's 6th grade Language Arts class, includes descriptions of projects/activities and student reflection on activities. Lots of information about using Web 2.0 technology in the LA classroom.
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 3 views
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is that developing brains can become more easily habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks — and less able to sustain attention.
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plays video games 10 hours a week
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How to Land Your Kid in Therapy - Magazine - The Atlantic - 8 views
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"college deans have reported receiving growing numbers of incoming freshmen they've dubbed "teacups" because they're so fragile that they break down anytime things don't go their way. "Well-intentioned parents have been metabolizing their anxiety for them their entire childhoods," Mogel said of these kids, "so they don't know how to deal with it when they grow up." "
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Agreed: I spend a significant portion of my "parent" time trying to convince HS parents that their child's grade is something the child and I can handle....
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